FraMCoS 9 2016 Berkeley, California, USA

Correlation during the fracture process analysed with the help of Ripley’s functions

The degradation of quasi-brittle materials encompasses micro-cracks propagation, inter- action and coalescence in order to form a macro-crack. These phenomena are located within the Fracture Process Zone (FPZ). This paper aims at providing a further insight in the description of…

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Abstract

The degradation of quasi-brittle materials encompasses micro-cracks propagation, inter- action and coalescence in order to form a macro-crack. These phenomena are located within the Fracture Process Zone (FPZ). This paper aims at providing a further insight in the description of the FPZevolutionwiththehelpofstatistical analysis of damage. The statistical analysis relies on the im- plementation of Ripley’s functions, which have been developed in order to exhibit patterns in image analyses. It is shown how a correlation length may be extracted from the Ripley’s function analy- sis. Comparisons between experimental and numerical evolutions of extracted correlation lengths are performed.